On Saturday 06 March 2010 12:19:19 Mark David Dumlao wrote: > Hi! > I'm wondering if anyone's written a script that looks deep into the > build dependencies of some package foo, and gives you a list of > ebuilds you need to unmask to build it. Immediate build dependencies > could easily be shown using the ebuild itself, and deep dependencies > could be shown using equery something, but I just want to focus on > dependencies you need to unmask when building. > > I usually just manually iterate through emerge -uDNtav world/something > to make something like that happen, and it's just hit me that this > sounds like a chore that's bound to have bugged someone. > > I'm not looking for a tool that writes my package.keywords/* for me, > I'd like to do that myself, but the iteration process is more painful > than it should be "manually". If there's none I was wondering what > kinds of challenges would it take to write one in python as that > sounds like a cool exercise to try out.
Have you looked at autounmask? Does it do what you need? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
